Like most of my articles, this one will be poorly timed after giving up 8 runs across 11 hits a few days ago. But Framber Valdez is starting to show some serious signs of being the strong rotation piece that some hoped he could be.
You may have seen Cody’s article highlighting red flags on Valdez, in which regression hit Valdez hard, from a sub-2 ERA to a mid 3’s one.
As of today, Framber is rocking a 3-3, 3.61 ERA, 8.60 K/9 and 2.41 BB/9 across his 52 IP this year. Those numbers are impressive in their own right, but don’t tell the full story of how great of a start to the season he has had, and while it’s still small sample size, it seemed worthwhile to take a look at his 2020 to date.